jbaber

I love RMS and his work. But I'd love to run Chimera Linux (BSD userland) just so I could "um actually" about it not being "GNU Linux".

Yes. It's a wealth tax on homeowners.

If I had billions of dollars of stock it would require a change in the law to tax me on its market value. But you can do exactly this to me if it's a house.

Wow. It's so... accurate.

Prion proteins seem much less animate, so more scary in this particular way.

I sympathize. -- Not Barber

sdf.org is still running.

When I first read this I thought, "Great. Something straightforward. Not meeting getting a bunch of variable estimates." then "What is this pricing model? I have to join a club?"

Thank you. I was looking for a Fuse response. I like her book's name for it, too: "unit origami".

I still host my site there. I sometimes use it as a private git remote. The people you meet there in bboard and com are necessarily very interesting :)

It's a webhost. It's a BBS. It's one of the largest shared unix systems to learn your way around the shell without a computer.

My favorite part of Feynman's magnetism rant about how the question is terrible and can't be answered is that he seemingly accidentally gives a very good explanation: that magnetic repulsion is a highly concentrated version of what repels his hand from the arm of his chair.

Thank you for Ankidroid!

That's why I got my kids $1 inflatable globes. You can see the poles just fine.